Show CATTLE AND SHEEP Further About the Stock Raising Industry inS in-S Utah > To the Editor of THE HERALD In your issue of a recent date there appeared ap-peared another article from Aquilla Nebo ker in answer to my father about the cattle cat-tle and sheep business As my father is in Deep Creek and will probably never seethe see-the said letter I cannot let it pass without correcting some of its misstatements and setting the public aright on my fathers position in this matter Why Mr Nebeker should seek to place my father in a false light is a mystery to me unless indeed ho does it with a view to making a record for himself so as to help his reelection to the legislature years hence or to get some other office To quote him He moaning moan-ing my father states that I try to male I him an enemy of the cattle and horse industry in-dustry when his letter to the News ought to bo fresh in his memory One would think from that that my father bed become a sworn enemy to the cattlo industry and a lover of sheep but such is far from being the case as he does not like sheep any more than Mr Nebeker does but justice to all Is what be wants My father was of tho opinion that the law originally introduced would kill tho sheep industry in the territory and therefore there-fore he took issue against it believing that an industry that is as thriving and well adapted to tho country as sheep should receive re-ceive fair dealing even if the sheepmen do cattlemen injustice and rob them of their ranges He thinks that the question can be settled in a much better wain a way that would be just to all and would result In encouraging the cattle industry without hurting the sheep business There cnn be no doubt the territory is better off with the sheep to utilize the products of the desert and mountain tops if regulated in such away a-way What my father says against the cattleman cattle-man is only in condemnation for not improving im-proving his cattle with better blood and be condemns the sheepman for what he has done in this respect I is a plea for the cattleman to do better as he knows the great benent to accrue from such improvement improve-ment It is his iuterest in the welfare of the cattle industry that he does this and not his enmity as the cowboy would have you believe After striking the first blow Nebeker complains because my father strikes back a little l harder 0rl in other words he pleads cue oaoy act mat isnt true cowboy grit Ho says that my father writ2s in vindictive vin-dictive cxaggeiation and says 9000000 arc invested in sheep not 2500000 as shown bj the governors report What wassald was this Crane the president of the sheep association values tho money invested in-vested at f 9000000 the last years sales 3OUOOoO Mr Pickard places the value at 7000000 I So i these figures are wrong it is an exaggeration of Mr Crane and Mr Pickard His statement that statement there is not a spot on the desert from Idaho to Arizona and not place in that mountainous mountain-ous country he describes that was not occupied by cattle and horses before it was occupied by sheep only shows bow his zeal has led him into error all through this controversy I believe that Mr Nebouer doesnt mean to be unjust but bo has talked against and fought sheopmen so long that ho has gone sheep crazy Every body knows that scarcely any of the lanl where sheep winter is adapted to I cattle I it is why isnt it used as there is a great portion of it the sheep do not touch one sheep man telling me that twice as many sheep could bo wintered hero as at present He knows or should know that his range can bo used only by some nomadic animal as the sheep and such a life doesnt agree win cattle And as to the mountains commonsense common-sense would teach anyone that sheep can go where cattle cannot Besides inmost of the vast country east of here files bother cattle so they cannot stay I am glad to see Mr Neboker gives my father credit for what ho has done in the interest of homes and cattle and in reviving re-viving the fair that lay dormant so lone and I trust that all fairminded men will understand his attitude on the question I Mr Nebeker is anxious to debate the question of cattle or cheep and their respective re-spective rights on the range I will turn him over to some sheep man for instance Charles Crane who occupies the place he tried to put my father in By all means let there be porno regulation regula-tion that will be just to both industries either as proposed by my father or some other good plan Perhaps tho suggestion made by Mr Neboker would do suggeaton I H J FAUST JK LEHI Maj 61S92 |